Crime

Vehicles, houses vandalized in communal clash in Ashanti region

Several vehicles, houses, and school properties in Atwima Agogo and Atwima Twedie of the Ashanti region have been vandalized following a communal clash in...

Five arrested in Fumso over alleged kidnapping of 4-year-old girl

Five people have been arrested for allegedly kidnapping a 4-year-old girl in Fumso in the Ashanti Region.They were handed over to the Fumso...

Six suspects arrested, 81 sacks of suspected marijuana confiscated

The Ghana Navy, the Narcotics Control Commission (NACOC), and the Ghana Police have jointly arrested six individuals on charges related to narcotics.The operation, led...

North East Region: Tension as residents clash with police over alleged motorbike thief

Tensions erupted in Loagri, within the Yagaba/Kubori Constituency, as residents clashed with the police over the custody of a suspected motorbike thief.The incident,...

Banker busted for dishonestly appropriating customer’s money

A 30-year-old banker, who is standing trial at the Tarkwa circuit court for dishonestly appropriating money belonging to a customer of a bank, has...

Court delays Cecilia Dapaah’s hearing pending FBI report

The Accra High Court has adjourned the hearing of a case involving former Sanitation Minister, Cecilia Abena Dapaah to January 11, 2024.This follows a...

Two highway robbers jailed 20 years each

The Asante Bekwai Circuit Court has sentenced two highway robbers to 20 years imprisonment each, in hard labour.Musah Alhassan and Yakubu Abdulai denied...

Banker remanded for dishonestly appropriating customer’s cash

 The Tarkwa Circuit Court has remanded a front desk officer of Access bank, Tarkwa branch, for dishonestly appropriating a cash sum of GHï¿ 9,190.57 belonging...

One shot as robbers block Gomoa Potsin-Awomre road

One person is receiving treatment at Winneba Trauma and Specialist Hospital after six armed robbers blocked Gomoa Potsin - Awomre road in the Gomoa...

24-year-old lady robbed, beaten in a moving car

A 24-year-old graduate was stripped, beaten and robbed in a moving taxi at Haatso around 7:30 pm on December 20th, 2023.According to her, the...

Admit you took an investment risk and lost out – Menzgold lawyer tells customer

"You simply took an investment risk and lost out." This was a statement made by the lawyer for defunct gold dealership firm, Menzgold to...

Farmer jailed and fined over visa fraud

A farmer who defrauded a tailor of $9,000 under the pretext of securing him a United States of America (USA) visa but failed has...

Damongo killing: Three firemen to reappear before Tamale High Court

Three firemen who are currently on remand in Tamale in the Northern for the alleged murder of a 27-year-old man in Damongo, will reappear...

Three fake policemen arrested at Asawase

Three individuals pretending to be police officers have been arrested and remanded into police custody after patrolling polling stations during Tuesday’s district Assembly and...

 Supreme Court Justice nominee proposes solution to prison congestion

A nominee to the Supreme Court, Justice Eric Adjei-Frimpong, has recommended that persons convicted should be separated from those undergoing trial and in prison...

One arrested over death of 22-year-old man at Yorogo

One person has been arrested in connection with the death of a 22-year-old man at Yorogo, a suburb of Bolgatanga Central in the Upper...

Prophet remanded over alleged GH₵2 million property fraud

A Circuit Court in Accra has remanded into police custody Daniel Nkansah, founder of New Pentecost Vision Church, for failing to appear before it....

One injured; police pursue suspects for violent disturbance at Senya Electoral Area

The police is on a manhunt for suspects in connection with a violent disturbance during the districts Assembly elections at a polling station in...

Latest on Kasoa ritual murder will shock you

A Pathologist at the Police Hospital, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Dr. Osei Owusu-Afriyie has told the High Court in Accra that Ishmael Mensah Abdullah,...

Ghana Navy intercepts canoe suspected to be carrying narcotics

The Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) has announced that the Ada Foah Detachment of the Riverine Command of the Ghana Navy has intercepted a canoe...

New Force spokesperson’s lawyer demands ‘forged document’ from GIS

Francis Xavier Sosu, lead counsel for embattled spokesperson of The New Force Movement, Shalimar Abbiusi, has hinted they will not delay in filing...

Ridge Hospital reacts to reports of ‘baby thief’ caught on their premises

The Greater Accra Regional Hospital (Ridge) has clarified reports on the arrest of a young man purported to have stolen a baby.Earlier reports on...

Man arrested for posing as woman to steal at Kasoa new market

A 21-year-old man has been arrested at Kasoa new market for posing as a woman to steal goods from market women.According to head of...

Cardinal found guilty of embezzlement in Vatican ‘trial of the century’

A Vatican court has sentenced Italian Cardinal Angelo Becciu, a former adviser to Pope Francis, to five-and-a-half years in jail for financial crimes.Becciu, 75,...

Former GWCL staff, another jailed 8 years over iron pipe theft

Two individuals, Abraham Asare, a former staff of Ghana Water Company Limited and Victor Moris, have been sentenced to four years each by Akuapem...

2 remanded over fraudulent fundraising in the name of Akosombo dam spillage victims

Two individuals, Promise Ahorgah and Kwaotse Mawuli, have been apprehended and brought before the High Court in Accra on charges of impersonating North Tongu...

10 persons grabbed for alleged land guard activities

Ten persons accused of engaging in land guard activities at East Legon in Accra have appeared before an Accra Circuit Court.The accused persons are...

Imposters of Okudzeto Ablakwa in trouble

Two persons have been arrested and arraigned at the High Court in Accra for allegedly impersonating Member of Parliament (MP) for North Tongu, Samuel...

Police recruit who used forged certificate to get enlisted busted

Police recruit at the Pwalugu Police Training School in the Upper East Region has been arrested for using a forged Kwame Nkrumah University of...

Three jailed 44 years for car robbery

Three persons who beat up a taxi driver, tied his neck with a rope, and robbed him of his vehicle at Gbawe in Accra...

MASLOC case: Ex-COO breaks down in tears as lawyer abandons him

It was a sight to behold as emotions got the better part of former Chief Operations Officer (COO) of Microfinance and Small Loans Centre...

Assembly member busted in GH¢18,000 police recruitment scam

The Ajumako Police Command has arrested the Assembly Member for the Atwereboanda Electoral Area, Joseph Dankwa in the Ajumako Enyan Essiam District of the...

Former GWCL employee arrested for stealing iron pipes

A 52-year-old man who resigned from the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) in 2022, Abraham Asare, has been arrested by the police in Larteh-Akuapem...

Police exhume body of woman killed by son over GH¢500

The police have exhumed the remains of a 60-year-old retiree from the Ghana Highway Authority allegedly killed by her son, Gideon Asomani.Mercy Oforiwa's...

OSP releases list of criminal trials since August 2021

The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) has released a list of individuals who are standing trial for corruption and corruption-related offences since August...

2 firemen arrested, others on the run over alleged killing of 27-year-old man

Two male officers of the Ghana National Fire Service in Damongo in the Savannah Region are in Police custody over the death of a...

Mother wrongly jailed for 20 years over the death of her 4 children has convictions quashed

An Australian mother who spent two decades in prison after she was wrongly found guilty of killing her four children had her convictions formally...

218 illegal miners arrested – Forestry Commission

The Forestry Commission has arrested 218 persons illegally mining in forest reserves across the country.Out of the number, 24 have been prosecuted and jailed,...

Caterer jailed 20 years for sodomy

The Tarkwa Circuit Court in the Western Region has sentenced a 36-year-old caterer, Isaac Tweneboah Koduah to 20 years imprisonment in hard labour for...

Teenage boy who threatened mother with knife granted bail   

The Gbetsile Circuit Court has granted bail in the sum of Gh₵50,000 with three sureties to Joshua Narh, a 19-year-old unemployed, who threatened his...